Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Okay, not a brilliant title, but does it need to be? Really, "haters gonna hate," and all that crap. But you get your range of whiney babies to full on violent criminals in such a broad stroke. That's a LOT of negative energy.

Specifically, those that really suck are hate-groups - the bigots of the world who just exude negative energy toward people who scare them. And, yeah, haters hate because they're little chicken shits, who can't pull their shit together, and gotta blame someone else (invariably the wrong people) for the failings of their petty little lives.

Suck it up and keep moving. Did Jesus whine about gay people when he carried the cross to Calvary? Nope. He sucked it up and did His duty. Did He bitch and moan about dark-skinned people picking on Him while he was up on the cross? Nope. He sucked it up and did His duty.

Listen up you anti-abortionist chuckleheads, because you're all naive idiots.

No, Im not even talking about the part where outlawing abortion won't solve a single fucking problem you seem to have some daft hope it will, and it will actually create numerous more problems that anyone really and honestly pro-life is already aware of and accepts as fact instead of pretending isn't a problem

I'm talking about the fact that your boys won't ever make abortion illegal.

I'll spell it out really slowly, not that it will help, because you've already stuck your fingers in your ears and I can hear you chanting "lalalalalalalala."

The Supreme Court has been dominated by conservatives for 45 years - including the most conservative skew in living memory under John Roberts and - wait for it - ABORTION IS STILL HERE. What does that tell you? Oh, wait, you're deaf to reality calling, so never mind, I'll talk to the reasonable people in the room.

Ask yourself, how many right-wing political tools would you really have voted for if they hadn't promised you they'd make abortion illegal again (yes, we've tried the illegal thing, we already know all the things wrong with it)? I've had several people straight up tell me that was their deciding factor for voting for racist, elitist, incompetent businessman conman Trump.

So, you think the GOP - or any right-wing demagogue tool is ever going to give up that cash cow vote machine of abortion? If you really think so, then you're hopelessly naive and divorced from reality.

Abortion is here to stay, chuckles, because it's such a useful way to lead you around by that cattle ring in your nose.

I'm fed up with the farcical narrative of the modern Democrats being KKK, which is as stupid as the legend of Lincoln being conflated with modern Republicans. Only an idiot would think Lincoln - who freed the slaves - would be part of the racist GOP today.

Trump spent the last six years hate-baiting white supremacists. And calling for race-based intimidation at the polling places.

So, yes, the President-elect is directly responsible for the race-based hate crimes going on right now.

Further proof is that those who commit the crimes say they have been empowered by their Great White Savior.

Interesting how those who have felt their loss of privilege, confused by inability to adapt, started spewing hatred years ago, and now say it isn't their fault that they are hateful petty violence-living assholes. Funny thing their concept of "personal responsibility."

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

- CALL Senator Lindsey Graham's office at (202) 224-5972, push 2 if you get the recording. Tell the staff member "I support Senator Graham's investigation into Russia's participation in the election of Donald Trump." [SERIOUSLY, this is important]
(I'm working on verifying this one.)

- CALL the House Oversight Committee (202-225-5074) FIRST THING to support the call for a bipartisan review of Trump's financials and apparent conflicts of interest. It takes two minutes, and the woman on the phone said that they are absolutely tallying calls - the more they get, the more likely the Committee is to demand ALL of Trump’s financial information. Time is running out on this one - it will come up immediately after Thanksgiving Break!
(I'm working on verifying this one.)

- CALL Paul Ryan's office express your concern about Trump's business conflicts of interest, his appointments of racists to his cabinet, voter fraud and Trump repealing Obamacare call (202) 225-3031.
(I'm working on verifying this one.)

And a Bonus Action: The Department of Justice is tallying phone calls regarding those who want the 2016 Vote Audited. A shift of just 55,000 Trump votes to Hillary in PA, MI & WI is all that separates the two candidates. They are starting to recognize there really is something off about the election results as they come in. Considering everything that is at stake, a vote audit should be done. Call the DOJ at 202-353-1555 and tell them you want the votes audited. Even if it's busy, keep calling. It takes a few times to get through because of all the calls being made.
(Snopes rates this Unproven)

#Electiongeddon2016 - because government is too important to be left to politicians

No reasonable historian will ever call former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani a good man, let alone a great man.

He should have been relegated to the dustbin of obscurity except for a fluke of timing (or a last concession from God, maybe) that meant he was still mayor and able to bring his 20 years of experience to bear when New York most needed someone who knew the city well. But, "9/11" gave the incompetent boor a new life he was unworthy of - and not up to the requirements of - and proceeded to demonstrate that every time he opened his mouth.

Still, and pathetic as Giuliani was and has been - and even if it is justified karma - it is always tragic and heartbreaking to watch someone publicly and high profile lose his mind.

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Especially since the people Trump is going to fuck most are the daft fools who worship him.

Trump runs a cult of personality, and always has. It's really amazing how people worship his massive ego.

Trump has absolutely no clue how to run anything - the man has destroyed countless businesses - he's like the only one ever to lose money running a casino. How incompetent does one have to be to lose money on a cash cow?

He has no concept - and no interest - in running a government - which is not like running a business.

Even if Trump wanted to run the government, he'd fuck it up, because he has no clue how.

Trump doesn't want to run the government - he did the entire thing as a publicity stunt.

But, now, a bunch of fools have given Trump the keys to the biggest damn cookie jar in the world - and people expect him to do anything other than raid it for his own personal benefit, fuck everyone else?

The man routinely tramples the little guy - and now the Trump Special Snowflakes expect Big Daddy Trump to Make Everything Right in their special little worlds?

OMG, talk about naive!

Liberals at least know WTF Trump is, and Liberals at least know to take steps to protect themselves against Trump's depredations.

Trump Special Snowflakes are going to have to look up the word "depredations," and then will still think Trump will fix their little worlds and be terribly, painfully, butthurt surprised when Trump - and the entire GOP - do what they've always done, which is Fuck America.

This isn't rocket science. It's just digging your head out of your ass long enough to notice reality calling.

Sigh. Some people have described the shock and despair of "11/9/2016" as feeling very much like "9/11/2001" - and frankly, given the nasty, fascist rhetoric of President Trump * during the campaign, anyone who is not white, not Evangelical Christian, and not male, _does have a lot_ to worry about, so the sense of displacement, fear, and "WTF happens next??" is legit. ** BUT - I wrote this piece, and I meant it. The office of the President of the United States demands a certain decorum and respect. It doesn't mean I have to agree with a damn thing President Trump *** wants, and I am free to oppose him at every lawful and ethical opportunity ****, but I will show some respect for the Office. This is going to be a long couple of years.

OMG, I remember this song from when I was a kid. Who let this video get made?? The 80s were such a fashion disaster.

The sound is still fun, but I can't listen while watching. It's too funny - it's just too bizarre. And the Pete Burns prancing through - his hair is EPIC, but those moves - I swear this must have been a case of "video killed the music career," right? No way were the 80s ready for that ;-)

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Okay, listen up lefties - "When they go low, we go high," wasn't just a talking point. It's important. It's one thing to petition Electoral College Electors to change their votes, but - this is important - DO NOT MIMIC YOUR "CONSERVATIVE" COUNTERPARTS BY MAKING THREATS.

Let me repeat that: the righties have a long tradition of making threats of violence, rape and death, but lefties will not fall to that level of scumbaggery, which only validates the righties belief that being a scumbag is just and proper behavior for righties.

There's lots better options than being a scumbag to a scumbag. You can't out-scumbag a scumbag, because the scumbag is just looking for any excuse to feel validated, so he can be a bigger scumbag.

But my anger is not about any given policy of the new president. No, it is about him, about the election of a fundamentally unsound, unserious and unfit man, a misogynist who brags about sexual assault, a bigot cheered to victory by the Ku Klux Klan. I have no idea how to “heal” woman hating and no desire to “come together” with the Klan.

Yep. That's exactly how I feel. The election is over and done, the Electoral College won't flip (dear God, there are reports of Electors threatening lawsuits against people suggesting they flip).

Barring some anomaly along the lines of divine intervention, Trump will be sworn in as President, and all of his deeply fucked up, idiotic ideas he spent 18 months spewing forth in the biggest publicity stunt ever (which bit him on the ass when it worked, and 60 million idiots decided bigotry wasn't a problem) will become official policy - and that's what I'm opposed to.

Ivanka has shown the same lack of ethics, but is a lot classier about it. I think this comes from her being a woman. She cannot get away with being as brusque or brutish as the men, so she has learned how to avoid saying anything too stupid, and actually donates to, and works with, charities, because it looks good and builds social influence.

Eric and Donald, Jr., have both shown themselves as boorish, prejudiced, entitled and unscrupulous as their father. Especially entitled. In their favor, they are more competent, but thankfully they lack their sire's charisma.

Tiffany is a fruit basket, which is why she was largely ignored by Trump during the election. She is also quite possibly the only one of the bunch with a scratch or ethics, but that's hard to tell, since she hasn't been given much opportunity to screw people in business.

Barron is going to grow up to be the most entitled little prick ever. Melania seems to have a few scruples, but she's also bright enough and cunning enough to play the dutiful wife in order to keep her position as a pampered princess (everyone knows Ivanka is the queen, as a titular role, not as some perversion). Barron will never have a normal grasp of the world - his life has been the iconic "ivory tower" isolation of absolute wealth and privilege. Without a miracle, he's going to be a tyrant to put all his relations to shame.

It is to this brood that President-elect seeks to give power, authority and more privilege over the American people - all for the enrichment and entitlement of the Trump clan brand, and always at the expense of everyone else.

The Donald has thumbed his nose at the American people for years, and during the campaign, he thumbed his nose, bit his thumb, waved his naked bottom and then said "All you idiots smell of elderberries, and you love me! Haha!"

The Orange One openly said he was going to defy American tradition and NOT isolate himself from his business operations. Every President for years has turned over the financial empire to a closed trust as a way of avoiding conflict of interest. This is important for legal reasons and more important for credibility reasons.

But, the Bombastic Ape cares nothing for tradition, nothing for the American people, and has already proven - and mocked - that the American people mindlessly worship him like beaten dogs worship their masters. And 60 million people voted FOR him to beat them more, in defiance of decency and common sense, all hoping for a soft pat on the head or a few table scraps.

The elder Donald Trump is extemely good at navigating the law. He has very expensive lawyers (whom he then doesn't pay) to make sure he does not break the law (or that it gets buried when he does). Ethics, common sense, honesty, integrity, compassion, and basic courtesy mean nothing to him - especially not if he can make a lawyer make it all go away.

Donald Trump, Sr., is a con-man (and not a very good one), who sucks at business and cares nothing for the American people. He will do anything that makes him look good.

That last point could be the saving grace. Donald Trump cares only about his brand and his legacy. He may Do Good Deeds, simply because doing so could leave a positive legacy in history.

Like Donald, Sr., his kids are morally bankrupt, but they are competent.

Only time will tell how badly the rest of the world gets screwed by handing the world's biggest cookie jar to a bunch of scumbags.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Why is it always easier to believe that some bogeyman billionaire - in that lone, and lonely, liberal bogeman, Soros - is in charge of our lives than that some asshole on the Internet made shit up for attention?

My first concern about Zero Hedge was the reference to Wikileaks docs but not even a link to Wikileaks let alone the supporting evidence. Sorry, Zero boys, but when your claiming bogeyman, burden of proof is on you, not your reader.

Zero Hedge full of shit about magical billionaire giving such a shit he's got lackeys paying for buses to move people hired (apparently with no paper trail anywhere - that's missing cash on the level that Haliburton employees lost in Iraq).

And here is my favorite "Hey, unlike those guys at Hedge, here are our supporting links to sources outside our own blog" fact checkers (what a concept) at Snopes explaining why buying Hedge's story at face value is just silly.

The protests are not about the election. Everyone accepts that the least competent person ever to run for President now owns the office. Everyone accepts that Mr "The Elections Are Riggged" Trump somehow got 60 million people to decide that sexual assault, racism, tax-dodging, veteran insulting, and general "fuck America, I'm in it for me" doesn't matter, and that somehow Trump has magical powers to fix their petty little lives.

60 million people threw ethics, morality and common sense out the window, and Mr Incompetent is already filling the most important jobs in the country with sycophants who can barely tie their shoelaces.

That's what the protests are about - to tell 60 million people that Trump's policies are going to fuck them along with the other 200 million Americans, and that some of us are not going to put up with it.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Come on, ASSANGE! You got off on taking down Clinton and the DNC, aren't you a proud little scrotum? Congrats! Now, show some courage - grow a pair of ovaries and do something positive with your life - like produce Trump's tax returns - you sad little celeb wannabe.

Edit: (27-January-2017) - found a meme to go with this one, especially since Lying President Trump persists in having ZERO intention of revealing his tax returns. Ever.

It's a very "meta" kind of metaphor. It requires you to recognize a couple common legendary memes (one very modern, one very old) and then understand how they are fitted together to vomit out a deep look into the shit that is.

So, you're either scratching your head, or you're trying not to feel sick (laughter is a great way to dodge that sick feeling).

I don't have to be polite. I choose to be polite. Given how much fucking stupid exists in the world, it's amazing how polite I am. Imagine if I gave up and met the stupid head-on with the beating it so richly deserves.﻿

No, really. Get over yourselves. Have you looked at the numbers who turned out for Trump?

Are you really so stupid as to believe "all" of those people would have voted for Sanders?

Stop being as stupid and self-congratulatory as the Trumpettes.

This goes for Hillbots, too: the Berned didn't cost you anything. The truth is there are too damn many Trumpettes.

Trump is about to usher in the most inept, corrupt and destructive term in history not because people don't like Clinton, but because people are so goddamn naive and stupid as to have embraced Trump.

Polls showed Clinton ought to have won. You expect polls showing Sanders scoring well against Trump months ago meant shit yesterday? Yeah, point to shit and tell me it smells nice. That's the same logic that swept Trump into office.

The Berned didn't mean shit to November 8 turnout, because people bought the shit Trump was selling.

That and that alone is why today is such a fucking mess.

The American people voted massively in favor of the GOP - the party that has been fucking the American people for 40 goddamn years

The American people have embraced the discordia being sold by the GOP. The American people have embraced the lunatic message that the very people who are fucking them are somehow not the people fucking them, but that by embracing their tormentors is the only way to be safe from their tormentors.

Yeah, the America people have embraced the mental equivalent of "Amanda Berry giving Ariel Castro everything he wants so that he will protect her from the police."

That didn't work for Berry, and thank God she was finally able to escape.

Unfortunately, the American people aren't as smart as Amanda. The American people have continued to embrace the idea that Donald Castro is their saving god - some all-powerful authority figure who will take care of them and "make everything all right," even as he tells them in very small words he's going to beat them and hurt them.

It's the very definition of abusive relationships.

So, listen, Berned. Be angry. Be pissed off. But realize you're in the same shit the Clinton supporters are in - that 80 million Americans have embraced Ariel Trump and want to watch him fuck you as hard as he fucks them.

The Hillbots and the Berned are in the same ship. Now it's time for both groups to quit bickering and realize they have a xommon enemy, and that battle is going to take a long time to sort out.

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Fuck the rainbow, HEY GOD - burn the human race to the ground. The experiment failed and the Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has been wasted. There is no excuse for this stupidity.

Trump and Pence are unabashed bigots who have been embraced by white supremacists - people who advocate for the return of torture and murder of non-whites for amusement and spectacle. There is no excuse for any non-white to vote for these guys.

Pence has enacted some of the most anti-women policies as governor, and Trump brags about sexually assaulting women. Any woman who voted for these men has effectively said "Daughter, you are nothing but a play toy for men, now start learning to cook and suck dick."

There is no acceptable justification for being this disconnected from reality.

Trump doesn't give a shit about the fantasy you have created in your head. He is going to fuck us all, and if you voted for him, when he fucks me, I am going to beat your sorry and Trump-fucked ass with your own goddamn naive stupidity and then kick you to the curb.

I feel like I'm watching 2004 election day night all over again. Where "No sane universe would elect Bush to a second term!" and it turns out Americans are just as fucking stupid 12 years later. Nothing learned, just more fucking stupid than before

I don't know how I keep underestimating human stupidity and selfishness. Somehow, despite my piles of cynicism, I keep having faith in humanity.

Now, what Electiongeddon2016 poll results like this say about white people ain't a pretty sight.

It means we got a lot of house cleaning to do, to flush out the racists, sexists and generally stupid people who can fall for a total bloviating conman like Trump. And fall hook, line, sinker, and dumb fuck ignorant ball of whole-nine-yard wax.

God, Electiongeddon2016 is a humiliating critical mass of the American people standing up and screaming "We're total suckers!"

The pink hedgehog is Amy, or Amy Rose, or SonAmy, depending on which source you're reading. Because, you know, there was the original video game, the television show, later video games, etc. And then the international versions. I have the impression the character's name evolved a bit, depending on the market and medium. That happens to the supporting cast, because who remembers their names, anyway, right?

Here is the original, by Aqua. I always thought this song and video made such fantastic satire of the materialism of Barbie, the materialism of modern life, and just the sheer fakeness of everything.

There is no "reconciliation" after this - there is only smashing the cockroaches back into the dark ages of the 1930s from which they crawled. Purge America of the cancer of selfishness, racism and stupidity. There is no "taking back America" - there is only going forward and growing up - evolve or die, you bed-wetting sexist, racist prigs.

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Larry Lyons, bless his mad heart, wrote (and I captured it here, because it's just so very thorough):

Of course Sanders was robbed of the nominations. By all those many more people who voted for Clinton than voted for him.If you'r still pissed off over the results of the primary so much so that you're voting for that Anti-Science Anti Vaxx whacko Stein, then say hello to President For Life Führer tRump . By voting for a third party you are throwing your vote to tRump. Bernie Sanders said quite clearly he is against that. In this election, Ideological Purity is a Luxury.With a conservative reactionary GOTP majority House and Senate, Trump will sign any fascistic bill put before him by McConnell and Ryan.Also in the next President's term anywhere from one to four SCOTUS justices will be nominated to the bench. With that conservative majority in the Senate and tRump in the Presidency, you'd be guaranteeing an extremist right wing SCOTUS for the next 20 years. And not just the SCOTUS, but also in the superior, appeals and circuit courts. By ensuring a tRump presidency you would also be ensuring that every progressive effort over the last 40 years will be in jeopardy - Voting rights, abortion rights, same-sex marriage etc. BECAUSE you decide to have a temper tantrum over Sanders not being elected to be the Presidential nominee of the Democratic party.The fact is that you have been lied to time and time again. However, since a lie travels around the world by the time a truth puts on its shoes, you believe in every Kochroach inspired lie about Ms. Clinton. You've been played for a fool for believing in those lies. And are twice the fool for believing them.Bernie Sanders may not have won the Democratic primary but he certainly won a huge battle. If Hillary Clinton wins the election, Sanders will have won the war. Now it's up to his supporters to continue the work by turning congress blue. That means voting in every single subsequent election! Including the midterms. Then, keep on top of your elected officials. Write letters. Make phone calls. Let them know that you are watching and you will remember them on election day. Remember. All politics is local. That's where you have the most influence. Its called getting involved and keeping involved. If you are not willing to do the work to ensure that what you think is important is put into effect, that says a lot about you and how much you value your ideals.80% of the Sanders platform has largely been integrated into the Democratic Party's platform. What you forget is that the Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.Ideological purity is a privilege. If you think you can survive a Trump presidency, it means you don't care about those who can't.http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12337522/bernie-bust-sanders-delegateFor me, I have an out as a dual citizen I can easily cross the Canadian border and watch you and the US figuratively and possibly literally burn. You will have to live with the consequences. Let us on the left in Canada know what it feels like to betray all of your progressive values because of your wasting your vote over a juvenile snit.http://www.vox.com/2016/8/1/12337522/bernie-bust-sanders-delegate﻿

Also, Cliff Bramlett had this on his wall, so I captured the meme, and below that is what I wrote in response to that meme.

It will increase as long as there are sociopaths who live for power over others. The sociopaths who own the media sculpt the narrative, and sell the bullshit that armed terrorists holding taxpayer property for six weeks, denying taxpayers the ability to use their property, and denying taxpayer-employees the ability to perform the jobs the taxpayers are paying them to do, are somehow "not terrorists," but "merely protesters."

"Protesters" my tight butt. The Bundy clan and their idiotic followers are selfish dung heaps worthy merely of contempt and ridicule. Oh, and dildos. I love how people sent them dildos as care packages while they were illegally occupying American taxpayer property. Dildos for dildos; exactly right.

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Right - I had no idea this G+ post would blow up the way it did. I mean, go read the comments. We've got some really creative ways of viewing the problem, and some really creative ways of dealing with the problem.

I'm capturing it here, because G+ posts are indexed (and searchable) by Google, but the visibility of G+ posts sucks - it's like Facebook - a G+ post simply gets lost in the dust of time, but a blog post can last forever. (Yeah, okay, that was silly.)